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As a Taiwanese I would say Simplified and Traditional Chinese is not that different. Most of us can easily understand 80% of it. But some proportion of the market will be irritated by Simplified Chinese and might even delete it on sight. Some of us have the impression of Simplified Chinese software equals malware, and other people just want to read what we are familiar with.
My personal preferences will be Traditional Chinese > English > other languages I read >>>> do i must use this? >>>> Simplified Chinese > other languages I don't read.
There are some automatic tools that can convert Simplified Chinese into Traditional with reasonable quality, so the cost of having a Traditional Chinese version should be minimal and it will make us happy (Although the enormous number of characters we have might be demanding on the memory side).
Hong Kong also use Traditional Chinese.
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As a Taiwanese I would say Simplified and Traditional Chinese is not that different. Most of us can easily understand 80% of it. But some proportion of the market will be irritated by Simplified Chinese and might even delete it on sight. Some of us have the impression of Simplified Chinese software equals malware, and other people just want to read what we are familiar with.
My personal preferences will be Traditional Chinese > English > other languages I read >>>> do i must use this? >>>> Simplified Chinese > other languages I don't read.
There are some automatic tools that can convert Simplified Chinese into Traditional with reasonable quality, so the cost of having a Traditional Chinese version should be minimal and it will make us happy (Although the enormous number of characters we have might be demanding on the memory side).
Hong Kong also use Traditional Chinese.